{
    "term": "scholar",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who knows a lot about a particular subject because they have studied it in detail",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a classical scholar"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was the most distinguished scholar in his field."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Literary scholars have argued about this matter for years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is the most distinguished scholar in her field."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a scholar of the Enlightenment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an eminent German scholar"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["brilliant", "great", "leading"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a student who has been given a scholarship to study at a school, college or university",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a Rhodes scholar"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a clever person who works hard at school",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I was never much of a scholar."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈskɒlə(r)/",
                "audio": "sc/scholar/scholar__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈskɑːlər/",
                "audio": "sc/scholar/scholar__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English scol(i)ere ‘schoolchild, student’, from late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola, from Greek skholē ‘leisure, philosophy, lecture-place’."
}